Where does “നീർക്കാട” come from?

നീർക്കാട (Malayalam) comes from Malayalam നീർ — (water, juice, or swelling).

നീർക്കാട (Malayalam): common sandpiper

Definitions

  1. common sandpiper

Ancestry of “നീർക്കാട”, step by step

നീർക്കാട traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Malayalam നീർ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malayalamനീർ(water, juice, or swelling)

via Malayalam കാട

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malayalamകാടquail; any of the small game birds belonging to the subfamily Perdicinae
Every word from Malayalam നീർ
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